[CAnet - news] Building a cyber-infrastructure science and engineering workforce

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[The NSF should be congratulated on this very important initiative to train
engineers and scientists on the use and deployment of cyber-infrastructure
tools and services. Cyber-infrastructure (CI) tools like service oriented
architectures, web services, workflow, etc is going to have a profound
effect not only on the way we do science, but will also have many direct
commercial applications in telecommunications networks, process control, oil
and gas, manufacturing, etc. Cyber-infrastructure may have as big an impact
on productivity in the coming decade as the Internet did in the last. For
examples of commercial applications of CI please see the CANARIE CIIP
announcement at http://www.canarie.ca/funding/ciip/guidelines.html.
>From an article in Science Grid this Week --BSA]

Proposals for NSF's CI-TEAM Solicitation 

The National Science Foundation's first Cyberinfrastructure TEAM (CI-TEAM)
solicitation seeks proposals from partnerships of organizations committed to
the preparation of a diverse cyberinfrastructure-savvy science and
engineering workforce. Following merit review of all CI-TEAM proposals
received, 10-20 projects will be selected for support that together address
a rich mix of cyberinfrastructure-related workforce dimensions, and that
promise to serve as pathfinders to effective larger-scale implementation
activities in the future. 

Cyberinfrastructure is an integrated system of information
technology-enabled systems, tools and services that have had a profound
impact on the practice of science and engineering research and education. To
harness the full power of cyberinfrastructure and the promise it portends
for discovery, learning and innovation requires focused investments in the
preparation of a science and engineering workforce with the knowledge and
requisite skills needed to create, advance and exploit cyberinfrastructure
over the long term. 

Each proposal submitted in response to this solicitation should define a
CI-TEAM demonstration project that is clearly focuses on one or more
cyberinfrastructure-related science and engineering workforce dimensions.
The project should be designed as a generalizable model with the potential
to be replicated widely and scaled up to a national level, and should be
built on strong science and engineering-focused partnerships among diverse
organizations. Such organizations may include academic institutions,
industry, and not-for profit organizations. 

For more information see the full CI-TEAM solicitation, NSF 05-560.
Information about many other funding opportunities for science and
cyberinfrastructure can be found on the NSF Web site. 

http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=12782&from=fund

Science Grid This Week is available at:
http://www.interactions.org/sgtw/



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